Forbes on Film & Footlights

By Harry Forbes Much as one can admire the work of Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a couple at the beginning and (possibly) end of the...

By Harry Forbes “The Fighter” is the gritty true life story of boxer Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) who, after losing a series of fights, has th...

By Harry Forbes If you were to avoid the adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play fearing its downbeat them...

By Harry Forbes The buzz you’ve been hearing about Natalie Portman is true. As a ballerina slowly unraveling as she rehearses for her first ...

By Harry Forbes The Coen brothers have done right by Charles Portis’ 1968 novel, already famously filmed in 1969, when it garnered an Oscar ...

By Harry Forbes Colin Firth will almost surely get his second Oscar nomination in a row (after last year's "A Single Man"). Bu...

By Harry Forbes Twenty-three years after its Off-Broadway premiere, “Driving Miss Daisy” remains a thoroughly absorbing, deeply moving theat...